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 **Blogs**. The most basic blog ‘set-up’ offers users an array of participation and interactivity options randing form being a lone blogger and silent reader of other blogs to structural features of the the blog that enable one to develop a ‘friends’ list that creates a tight network of people usually interested in similar things…More elaborate degrees and forms of participation are made possible throught the use of services and conventions like syndication software and commands (RSS) and permalinks. I am now a daily reader of Andrew Sullivan’s The Daily Dish! and also enjoy reading the comments of [|www.stevenberlinjohnson.com] 
 * Beta readings **. Public pre-publication forums where authors can obtain feedback on new stories before posting them to or publishing them on more formal fanfic sites (Black, 2006)